Category Archives: Agriculture Construction

Agriculture Mechanics CDE consists of a team of five members, each competing in their chosen area of carpentry, welding, agricultural power, surveying, or electricity. The top team and any first place individuals not on the first place team are eligible to compete at the state level at Parkland College in Champaign.

Students from Stark County, Cambridge, Wethersfield, AlWood, and Geneseo learned about careers in the agriculture industry and participated in hands-on activities in Natural Resources, Plant Science, Animal Science, Agriculture Mechanics, and Agriculture Business at Black Hawk East College. The event was sponsored by the Cambridge FFA Alumni and Black Hawk East.

Students are forming an employee owned, employee run construction cooperative business. They are raising capital by selling shares and employees are keeping timesheets on a google form. The Board of Directors have elected a chairperson, vice chairperson, and treasurer. The company treasury is run through the FFA Account. At the end of the semester after all expenses are paid, the profits of the cooperative are paid to the employee owners according to how many shares each own in the business.

Students in the Agriculture Mechanics Technology conduct a Surveying unit consisting of pacing, taping, differential leveling, profile leveling, and legal land descriptions. In groups, students survey the campus property using differential leveling and profile leveling techniques.

Stark County High School student Cade Tuthill works on a practice electrical wiring exercise during a recent Agriculture Construction Technology class. Students will complete wiring lab exercises during the first semester of the course.

This semester course will concentrate on oxyacetylene welding and cutting exercises, arc welding, and MIG welding lab exercises. Students will gain training on the Realityworks Virtual Welding Simulator for Arc (Stick) Welding and Gas Metallic Arc Welding (MIG) in the classroom to analyze strengths and weaknesses in the lab portion of the course

The semester exam consists of students choosing seven welds from the Arc Welding list (SMAW), two welds from the MIG Welding list (GMAW), and five welds from the Oxyacetylene Welding list. The welds are completed during a 83 minute exam period.